Each year, SEMI publicly recognizes and honors technological and industrial leadership through the SEMI Award North America program. There are two distinctions for the Awards made within this program.

The awards program was established in 1979 to recognize enabling technical contributions by individuals and teams to the microelectronics industry. The enabling technological contributions to the microelectronics industry can be as broad as Integrated Circuit Design, Design for Manufacturability (DFM), new mask manufacturing methods, new device manufacturing architecture and methods and the assembly and test of integrated circuits and microelectromechanical (MEMS) devices.

In 2009 SEMI announced its first significant change by expanding criteria to include outstanding achievements in developing new and emerging technologies expected to have significant future value to the semiconductor industry. This change in criteria broadens the scope of the SEMI Award to recognize technology developments including semiconductors, photovoltaic solar displays and solid state lighting.

The highest honor achievable through the 3,000 member trade organization SEMI, is the Lifetime Achievement Award. The Honor is reserved for those individuals who repeatedly enable and lead the industry, technologically, throughout their professional career. See the following link "SEMI Award for North America recipients list"

Nominations for the Award are submitted by SEMI North America member companies and the selection of the Recipients is made by a committee of industry executives. Follow this link to the "Nomination guidelines".

Congratulations to our 2009 SEMI Award Recipients, Ultratech Laser Annealing Development Team: Andrew Hawryluk, Chief Technology Officer James McWhirter, Vice President of Engineering for Laser Programs Michael Thompson, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University Yun Wang, Senior Vice President and Chief Technologist for Laser Processing Presented for annealing using grazing-angle IR laser beams

	Congratulations to our 2009 SEMI Award recipient, Robert Patti, Chief Technology Officer, Tezzaron Semiconductor Corporation Presented for his pioneer work in the emerging technical area of 3D IC integration

SEMI Award for North America recipients list
Nomination guidelines

W. R. Bottoms (Chairman) Third Millennium Test Solutions	Dan Berry Riverside Partners
.Michael Current Michael Current Scientific	Terry Francis Matheson Tri-Gas
Mike Garner Intel Corporation	Joseph Monkowski Pivotal Systems
Fabian Pease Stanford University